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The advent of the stone castle itself meant usually the piecemeal addition of stone walls and buildings to motte - and - bailey strongholds , and thereafter such great works of improvement as were carried out at Windsor , Scarborough or ...
The advent of the stone castle itself meant usually the piecemeal addition of stone walls and buildings to motte - and - bailey strongholds , and thereafter such great works of improvement as were carried out at Windsor , Scarborough or ...
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For all these great operations at Windsor detailed accounts and other documents survive , and have been printed , translated and commented upon at length in the monumental official history of the castle by W. H. St. John Hope .
For all these great operations at Windsor detailed accounts and other documents survive , and have been printed , translated and commented upon at length in the monumental official history of the castle by W. H. St. John Hope .
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In short , this great work at Windsor was carried out on the most lavish scale by a luxuryloving king wielding all the resources of a wealthy , wellorganised medieval state and its cost was prodigious , amounting to some £ 50,000 ...
In short , this great work at Windsor was carried out on the most lavish scale by a luxuryloving king wielding all the resources of a wealthy , wellorganised medieval state and its cost was prodigious , amounting to some £ 50,000 ...
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